If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The New York Times has found another way, and another reason, to launch an attack against online encryption. With the US presidential vote around the corner, it is tied to “disinformation” – in particular, how the perceived danger from it is affecting Latino voting rights activists (apparently badly –  NYT says the problem of “disinformation” is something that “keeps them up at night.”) After going through a litany of complaints about what the newspaper sees as “disinformation” targeting specifically Latino voters, the article comes to secure encryption, why NYT thinks it’s bad, and what to do about it. The last couple of years (and US election cycles) have produced a new crop of “experts” – those supposedly best equipped to deal with “disinformation.” In the piece, NYT takes their expertise for granted, and uses them to explain one of the reasons “disinformation” allegedly cannot be dealt with properly, or, at least, to NYT’s satisfaction. And it’s encrypted apps standing in the way of these experts to – spy on people’s personal communications, all the while referring to the spying as a “transparency” problem. According to NYT “a lot of disinformation” can be found on encrypted messaging apps, which are misleadingly referred to as “closed” – a word that has a very different, and negative, connotation in the software world. Here, the apps are simply “closed” to surveillance of private communications, meaning that “disinformation experts” can’t just have access to that data at will. Apparently one such expert – head of Information Futures Lab at Brown University’s School of Public Health Stefanie Friedhoff – sees another problem, which is that social media companies also “do not tend” to hand over data to this type of researchers, which would show “what is spreading.” In other words, what needs to be suppressed, once it has been branded as “disinformation.” And, experience shows that can be a lot of things, including content that is factually correct. The whole article is very clear on where its political preferences lie – namely, with the current White House, and the “war on encryption” is well-aligned and for a long time a part of that general political bias. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post NY Times Criticizes Encryption, Citing “Disinformation Experts” Struggling to Access Private Messages appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Following a visit from Australia’s federal law enforcement to an employee’s home, Session, the encrypted messaging app known for its robust privacy features, has decided to relocate its operations from Australia to Switzerland. This move highlights the increasing dilemmas faced by encrypted app providers amid growing governmental demands for user data. Session’s escalation in popularity has come with heightened scrutiny, culminating in a direct approach by law enforcement that led to its decision to operate under Switzerland’s more privacy-conducive regulations. Alex Linton, president of the newly established Session Technology Foundation (STF) which oversees the app, emphasized that this shift was crucial for maintaining the app’s core privacy principles. Despite the geographic move, Session will continue to be accessible to users in Australia. According to a report by 404 Media, Last year, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) unexpectedly approached a Session employee at their residence, bypassing more formal communication channels. Linton described the encounter, noting the lack of a warrant and the informality of the visit. The AFP’s inquiries centered around the app and its development, as well as an ongoing investigation linked to a Session user. This incident, Linton revealed, prompted Session’s legal team to correspond formally with the AFP to address the situation. Linton provided further insight into subsequent interactions with the AFP, which involved more detailed inquiries into the technical aspects and future plans for Session. The AFP, while acknowledging their familiarity with the app, refrained from commenting on this specific incident. In a backdrop where encrypted services like Telegram have faced similar pressures, with their CEO Pavel Durov being detained by French authorities, Session’s pivot towards a safer haven for privacy reflects a broader trend among tech companies seeking to protect user confidentiality against increasing legislative pressures. Notably, Australia’s recent surveillance laws, which now require data collection by service providers, played a significant role in Session’s decision. The laws mandate the collection of personal identifiers like phone numbers or emails, a requirement that disproportionately impacts smaller or niche services. Nearly six years post-enactment of Australia’s controversial anti-encryption laws, the tech industry reports significant negative impacts. The Assistance and Access Act 2018 aimed to allow authorities better access to encrypted communications, justifying it as necessary for combating terrorism and other crimes. However, the tech community, including companies like Atlassian, argues these laws have tarnished Australia’s tech reputation, and deterred skilled IT professionals. These laws enable the government to issue technical capability notices, forcing companies to create backdoors in encryption, raising fears among global customers and partners about compromised security and privacy. The backlash is reflected in criticisms from tech leaders and concerns over government overreach, likening the situation to regulatory issues faced in other nations, which have resulted in similar detrimental effects on local industries and privacy standards. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Session’s Escape Plan: How a Visit From Police Pushed It To Leave the Country appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel recently joined MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough for an interview that aired on the Wednesday edition of Morning Joe. Throughout the two-part interview, Scarborough and Kimmel would discuss the latter’s career and their mutual loathing of Donald Trump, with Kimmel going so far as to say, “If you're a reasonable person, you should have Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Scarborough portrayed Kimmel as the comedian who only reluctantly got political, “So, you started this show, and then Trump happened. And we all manned the stations. Kind of the same thing with you. Where you didn't want to get political.     After a clip of Kimmel’s October 15 monologue, Scarborough continued, “But you felt a necessity to, especially, because of your son. Can you talk about that?” Kimmel replied, “Yeah, I mean, I think that was more related to mainstream Republicanism and this idea that, I don't know, that it's not okay to have socialized health care, but it's fine to have socialized education.” Scarborough likes to portray himself as the principled conservative and claim it is today’s Republicans that have gone wrong, but Kimmel is right: his critique of GOP health care plans is not really a critique of Trump. However, Scarborough was not interested in challenging that. Instead, MSNBC played a clip of Kimmel from May 1, 2017, where Kimmel declared, “If your baby is going to die and it doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much money you make, I think that's something that whether you're a Republican or Democrat or something else. We all agree on that, right, we do?” Back in the present day, Kimmel elaborated: None of it really makes sense, and it just so happened my son had open heart surgery, I was just looking at these families and thinking, it's hard enough just to take off from work to come be here all day, make sure somebody is here with your kid, the medical expenses, and then I started taking interest in it. It just so happens, I'm sitting in a children's hospital funded largely by donations, but also by the government, and I feel like I need to make something positive about this very scary thing that happened to our family.” No one seeks to minimize the horrible situation the Kimmel family found itself in, but Kimmel is not the only father to go through such a situation. Being opposed to socialized health care is not the same thing as being indifferent to babies dying. In part two of their interview, Kimmel contemplated a Trump victory: I'm an optimistic person, I'm not hysterical, I laugh when people say, 'Oh, you've got Trump Derangement Syndrome.' If you're a reasonable person, you should have Trump Derangement Syndrome, and by the way, I think he has derangement syndrome about us, too. The fact of the matter is, this is a dangerous person, this is a stupid person, and that's a bad combination.     A little bit later, Scarborough wondered, “What do you think, though, is happening in the country? Where you have two weeks out, and it's one thing to just look at Donald Trump and look at some, you know, senators, but we're actually talking about 70, 75, 80 million people.” Kimmel mourned, “I think that there are certain news networks, if you want to call them that, who are lying to people. I think that there's a certain generation, of which we are a part, who are used to watching television and seeing the white man in a suit telling us what's going on in the world and believing that what he's saying is true.” Reaching for a rather strange role model, Kimmel continued, “We grew up with Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings and we did not question that what they were telling us was factual, and a lot of people now are looking at Sean Hannity and whomever else, and they are not questioning whether or not what they're saying is factual.” Dan Rather and CBS’s scandalous history of fake news aside, Kimmel himself does not always put a high premium on accuracy. He’s attacked those “certain news networks” for putting Trump in context, he mocks alleged red state book bans by citing books blue school districts find problematic, and he brings his wife and writer on to say pro-life laws are killing women. Here is a transcript for the October 23 show: MSNBC Morning Joe 10/23/2024 8:39 AM ET JOE SCARBOROUGH: So, you started this show, and then Trump happened. And we all manned the stations. Kind of the same thing with you. Where you didn't want to get political. JIMMY KIMMEL [10/15/24]: Many are now seriously questioning whether Trump is healthy enough to be running for president, so what does he do? Well, he does what he always does. He questions whether his opponent is healthy enough to be running for president, Dr. Dolittle Hands was up attacking Kamala's medical records. SCARBOROUGH: But you felt a necessity to, especially, because of your son. Can you talk about that? KIMMEL: Yeah, I mean, I think that was more related to mainstream Republicanism and this idea that, I don't know, that it's not okay to have socialized health care, but it's fine to have socialized education.  KIMMEL [5/1/17]: If your baby is going to die and it doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much money you make, I think that's something that whether you're a Republican or Democrat or something else. We all agree on that, right, we do? KIMMEL: None of it really makes sense, and it just so happened my son had open heart surgery, I was just looking at these families and thinking, it's hard enough just to take off from work to come be here all day, make sure somebody is here with your kid, the medical expenses, and then I started taking interest in it. It just so happens, I'm sitting in a children's hospital funded largely by donations, but also by the government, and I feel like I need to make something positive about this very scary thing that happened to our family. … KIMMEL: I'm an optimistic person, I'm not hysterical, I laugh when people say, “oh, you've got Trump Derangement Syndrome.”  If you're a reasonable person, you should have Trump Derangement Syndrome, and by the way, I think he has derangement syndrome about us, too. The fact of the matter is, this is a dangerous person, this is a stupid person, and that's a bad combination, and I think what we're forgetting, I keep forgetting it and I have to keep having to remind myself, is he's not just running for president he's running to stay out of prison and that's a pretty powerful thing, he is literally running for his freedom. SCARBOROUGH: But it seems like everybody sort of manned, for good reason, the, sort of, battle stations, whether you’re talking about democracy. You can even look in the past week where Donald Trump’s talking about arresting his political opponents. KIMMEL: Yeah. SCARBOROUGH: He pressured -- tried to pressure Disney because of your jokes. KIMMEL: He believes CBS should have their license revoked. SCARBOROUGH: Because he doesn't like how they edited a 60 Minutes package. How concerned are you about what you do right now may have to change if Donald Trump is reelected? KIMMEL: Well, it won't change. I am not -- I'm concerned, certainly. I think that it would be so un-American if he were to come after people who are speaking out against him. SCARBOROUGH: What do you think, though, is happening in the country? Where you have two weeks out and it's one thing to just look at Donald Trump and look at some, you know, senators, but we're actually talking about 70, 75, 80 million people. KIMMEL: Yeah. I think we're focused on the wrong things, I think we're being focused on the wrong things. I think that there are certain news networks, if you want to call them that, who are lying to people. I think that there's a certain generation, of which we are a part, who are used to watching television and seeing the white man in a suit telling us what's going on in the world and believing that what he's saying is true.  I think that is ingrained in us as Americans. We grew up with Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings and we did not question that what they were telling us was factual, and a lot of people now are looking at Sean Hannity and whomever else, and they are not questioning whether or not what they're saying is factual and what they're hearing is untrue and I can understand why they think what they think because they're being told there's a caravan of migrants coming, and then nobody is following up at the end and saying, oh, “there was no caravan of migrants coming.”

On CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip, Scott Jennings was shouted down on Tuesday night as he tried to raise the allegations that Doug Emhoff brutally slapped a girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. The CNN liberals rushed right into E. Jean Carroll claims of rape by Donald Trump. While CNN touted Kamala Harris being endorsed by the rapper Eminem at an event with Barack Obama, Republican analyst David Urban recalled being a Philadelphia event for Hillary Clinton at the end of the 2016 campaign with the Obamas and Beyonce and Jay-Z and Jon Bon Jovi etc. Celebrities didn’t matter. Hillary lost. Jennings then tried to add to this argument, that Eminem is not anyone's moral arbiter:      “I think this Eminem thing, I got to tell you. This campaign! So everything that’s said about Donald Trump and his treatment of women and the gender gap in this campaign, this rapper, who I fully admit sold a lot of records, if you’ve read some of the things he has said about the promotion of domestic violence against women,” Jennings said, spurring Democrat commentator Bakari Sellers to interrupt. “No, no, Bakari, I listened to your entire filibuster, if you could just give me 13 seconds.”' Sellers shot back: "I'll give you twelve, because he said 'grab 'em by the mmm-mmm." Eminem has rapped lyrics like “I’m the illest rapper to hold a cordless, patrolling corners / Looking for hookers to punch in the mouth with a roll of quarters.” But Sellers touted the rappers as great American poets (move over, Walt Whitman). Jennings continued: “So when you think about the things [Eminem] has said in order to sell those records, and you also consider some of the questions that are swirling around Harris’s own husband in this regard,” Jennings said, before being interrupted again. Emhoff recently failed to deny the allegation in a supportive Joe Scarborough interview, instead calling it a "distraction." “Oh my god,” Sellers said. “Okay, you don’t even get 12 seconds. I’m not gonna let you go into the far end of BS.” Sellers was a Kamala supporter during her first presidential campaign in 2019. Phillip and her fellow Democrats just shut down the entire subject:  PHILLIP: Scott, you can't --hey, hey. SELLERS: I can't represent you in the defamation case. PHILLIP: We're going to -- we're going to stop here for a second. ASHLEY ALLISON: I just want to talk strategy. SELLERS: Yes, I thought we were on a polling strategy. PHILLLIP: I just have to say, I'll take those concerns seriously if you also express concerns about the allegations. He's been found liable for rape. [The civil suit by ] URBAN: Sexual assault. SELLERS: That's the same thing. PHILLIP: Okay, so that's also true. So, we're not going to litigate those other things, but you can't - you can't just pick and choose which allies. ALLISON: And I know we have to go. I'm just going to say, okay. URBAN: All I'm saying is, celebrities don't move the needle much. That's all I'm saying. SELLERS: Where are we on the panel right now? I'm just trying to figure out where we are. PHILLIP: We're going to break. That's where we are. ALLISON: You know why there's a gender gap? Because these guys talk too much and don't listen to women. PHILLIP: That might be true, too. Everyone, stick around. But these women aren't listening to Emhoff's accusers. Those women don't count.  PS: This is how Abby's show began, with claims that Trump repeatedly praised Hitler. No one shouts that down. This....is CNN: SHOW INTRO or HARRIS AD? The Tuesday night intro to CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip." pic.twitter.com/TtlPQFDuKp — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) October 23, 2024

It’s been two weeks since CBS was slammed for editing Kamala Harris’ interview with “60 Minutes’” Bill Whitaker — specifically the answer (or rather word salad) she gave regarding Israel. “There’s been one question,” says Glenn Beck. “Why is one answer different in the promo than the answer you aired the next night in the special?” Well, CBS has finally answered that question, but unfortunately, its statement is entirely void of the humility one would expect from a scandal of this caliber. First, the news platform denied the accusation from Donald Trump that it engaged in “deceitful editing.” “That is false,” the statement claimed. Glenn then reads the explanation justifying the editing: “'60 Minutes' gave an excerpt of our interview to ‘Face the Nation’ that used a longer section of her answer than that on '60 Minutes.' Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response.” “The portion of her answer on '60 Minutes' was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide-ranging, 21 minute-long segment.” Already, the statement is not off to a great start. But then it got even worse when it changed the subject to — surprise, surprise — Donald Trump. “But remember, Mr. Trump pulled out of his interview with '60 Minutes,' and the vice president participated.” “Why was that last line necessary?” asks Glenn. “That shows that they have an agenda.” “There’s something there that they are literally trying to hide,” adds Stu Burguiere, noting that the full interview still hasn’t been released. Glenn says that in response to CBS’ deception, the people need to take action. “Look for your local CBS television station,” “email or write snail mail” to “the general manager,” and ask him or her “why they are not demanding for their own local audience to be informed on what looks like CBS News election interference,” he instructs, adding that “any complaint like that has to be saved for the FCC.” “That’s how you get their license pulled.” Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The Heritage Oversight Project exposed efforts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to downplay its support for agents who publicly kneeled with Black Lives Matter protesters against police. Mike Howell, the executive director of the Oversight Project, spoke to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck about the revelations from documents his organization obtained about the FBI agents referred to as "Kneel Team Six." 'It wasn't just this isolated incident of a liberal sect of the FBI. No, it was approved and sanctioned by the FBI brass in their reaction to it.' Howell explained how some FBI agents, whom he said were predominately female, had kneeled in solidarity during a BLM riot in Washington, D.C., in 2020. "Think about how outrageous that is. The FBI is supposed to be the top legal arm in this country, and here they are in the midst of the country burning down, in front of everybody's eyes, kneeling in solidarity with the rioters," said Howell. "This garnered some traction on social media and elsewhere and some of the pictures are absolutely outrageous. You have a woman in there who clearly can't pass any sort of physical fitness test. It's just a terrible look for the FBI," he explained. The Oversight Project sued the FBI in 2020 for the release of documents related to the incident and published some of the findings on Monday. "It wasn't just this isolated incident of a liberal sect of the FBI. No, it was approved and sanctioned by the FBI brass in their reaction to it," he said. Howell said the FBI tried to downplay the incident as an act of de-escalation and not to show solidarity with rioters, but the documents published by the Oversight Project show that the agents were rewarded for their outrageous behavior. "They were greeted with gift cards, rewards, promotions, all praise from the tippity-top of the brass, including Director Christopher Wray," said Howell. He also suggested that the disappearance of a viral video on TikTok about the incident pointed to possible measures taken by the FBI to prevent the public from seeing what happened. "You have elements potentially of what screams of a cover-up," he concluded. The FBI declined a request for comment from Blaze News.Here's part of the Howell interview with Glenn Beck:.@Heritage's @MHowellTweets reveals just how deep the FBI's support of BLM went during the 2020 riots. A lawsuit uncovered that the agents dubbed "Kneel Team Six" didn't take a knee as a "de-escalation tactic":"The FBI ended up REWARDING these agents...They were greeted with… pic.twitter.com/bmv1RX6vZm— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) October 22, 2024 Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard helped torpedo Kamala Harris' presidential campaign in 2020. Keen to do so once again but also to spare America from losing further blood and treasure abroad as a consequence of the interventionism favored by the vice president and her new buddy Liz Cheney, the former congresswoman endorsed President Donald Trump in August, stressing that unlike Harris, he would "do the work and walk us back from the brink of war." At a rally Tuesday in Greensboro, North Carolina, the former Democrat went a step farther, announcing that she was joining the Republican Party. "To those of you here and those watching at home who are independent people like myself, who love our country and are committed to the Constitution and to freedom, the Democrat Party has no home for people like us," said Gabbard. "But we do have a home in the Republican Party." "It is because of my love for our country and specifically because of the leadership that President Trump has brought to transform the Republican Party and bring it back to the party of the people and the party of peace that I'm proud to stand here with you today, President Trump, and announce that I'm joining the Republican Party," added the former Hawaii congresswoman, to the sound of thunderous applause. 'A vote for President Trump is a vote for peace.' Earlier in her remarks, Gabbard noted that she spent over 20 years as a Democrat but found that the party had morphed into something unrecognizable. Gabbard noted that like her party, Harris is "anti-freedom, she is pro-censorship, she is pro-open\-borders, and she is pro-war." The former congresswoman is particularly sensitive to Harris' disregard for American freedoms, having learned over the summer from several federal Air Marshal whistleblowers that the Biden-Harris administration was apparently surveilling her via a program designed to identify and monitor potential terrorists. Gabbard's alleged enrollment in the Transportation Security Administration's Quiet Skies program was all the more offensive because she enlisted in the military in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, countering extremism across three war zones. The congresswoman previously told Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, "The only assumption that I can make is that they're coming after me because of my speaking the truth and revealing who they really are." While continued abuses under a possible Harris administration are clearly a concern for Gabbard, she underscored that the choice between Trump and the vice president was ultimately a choice between peace and war. "President Trump has pledged to stop wars, not start them," Gabbard told the crowd Tuesday in Greensboro. "And this is why, in the eyes of the Kamala Harris, Dick Cheney Democrat Party, they will do everything possible to try to destroy him." Noting that Election Day was just two weeks away, Gabbard impressed upon the crowd that "a vote for President Trump is a vote for secure borders and safe communities, and a vote for President Trump is a vote for peace here in America and around the world." The pro-peace message at the Trump rally was at odds with the message advanced at Harris' phony town hall Monday in Royal Oak, Michigan, where the vice president and Liz Cheney criticized Trump's plan to end the war in Ukraine. Cheney said, "I think that if you look at where the Republican Party is today, there's been a really dangerous embrace of isolationism." Harris signaled her agreement, stating, "Isolationism, which is exactly what Donald Trump is pushing — pull out of NATO, abandon our friends — isolationism is not insulation. It is not insulation. It will not insulate us from harm in terms of our national security." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Election officials in Minnesota fired a ballot courier last week after Republicans spotted unsecured ballots in the back of a van.While walking through the parking lot of the Edina City Hall on Oct. 18, a man spotted a Hennepin County courier vehicle with the rear door ajar. Inside the back of the van were approximately a dozen boxes of unsecured ballots. 'This is exactly what can't happen.'Surveillance video shows the unsecured ballots were left exposed in the parking lot for nearly 10 minutes. — (@) The eyewitness who snapped the photograph of the unsecured ballots told KSTP-TV that he is concerned about a fair election, telling the news station, "This is exactly what can't happen."One day after that witness spotted the ballots, Hennepin County officials released a statement acknowledging a "lapse in protocol" had occurred."The protocol for transporting ballots is that they are to be secured at all times and Hennepin County has alerted its courier of this incident," county officials said. "Hennepin County acknowledges that this lapse in protocol occurred, should not have happened, and is unacceptable. Corrective actions have been taken by the county and its courier to prevent any recurrence."Officials, moreover, fired the election worker who left the ballots unsecured.Because of the security lapse, Hennepin County officials inspected the unsecured ballots and determined all remain legitimate.The statement explained:Hennepin County has determined that all expected ballots have been accounted for and found no evidence of tampering with sealed transfer cases. This is done by comparing the ballots received from the courier with the record in the Statewide Voter Registration System for all absentee ballots accepted by cities. The comparison demonstrated a 100% match. This step is routine in the ballot integrity process, occurring with every transfer.County staff have also inspected individual ballots and determined that absentee ballot envelopes within the cases were received in sealed condition. This inspection is also a routine election integrity process.Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon (D), meanwhile, said the incident "was totally unacceptable," yet he still chalked it up as a "teachable moment." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Vice President Kamala Harris further enflamed tensions with Muslim Americans after her campaign kicked a prominent doctor and former Democratic congressional candidate out of a Detroit-area event earlier this week.On Monday afternoon, Dr. Ahmed Ghanim and approximately 200 other guests arrived at a Harris rally held at the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan, a trendy suburb located about 15 miles north of Detroit.Ghanim, a 49-year-old native of Egypt who received an invitation to the event, claimed he entered the facility, passed through security, and arrived at his seat without a problem. About 10 minutes later, someone from the venue approached him and asked him to follow her. "I followed her," Ghanim told FOX 2. "I thought they are changing my seat or doing something."The venue was not changing his seat. Instead, the woman led Ghanim to the theater lobby, where members of the Royal Oak Police Department and U.S. Secret Service were standing. The group of officials then asked him to leave the premises or risk detention in the back of a cop car.Ghanim filmed his conversation with venue staff and members of law enforcement. According to the footage he captured, one officer said, "I'm not kicking you out. The venue's kicked you out."When Ghanim pressed further, demanding to know why they were removing him, a woman stated, "Unfortunately, this is no longer a conversation.""This is my city," Ghanim explained to WXYZ. "So if this happens to me in my city where I should feel safe ... how do you think that is going to make me feel other than being an outcast?"When FOX 2 asked whether he believed his Muslim faith played a role in the incident, Ghanim replied, "I think so.""They kicked me out without providing [a reason]," he told the Detroit News. "I didn't have anything. There is no provocation. I didn't even have any, like, a Palestinian kaffiyeh, any signs, or a banner, nothing. None of that is allowed inside."A spokesperson from ROPD confirmed to WXYZ that a representative from the theater issued the order to remove Ghanim. Secret Service confirmed to the outlet that none of the attendees, including Ghanim, were considered a security threat.The Harris campaign, likely recognizing that someone had bungled the situation, immediately issued an apology. "Our campaign regrets this action and its impact on Dr. Ghanim and the community, and he is welcome at future events," Naomi Savin, deputy communications director for the Harris team in Michigan, told FOX 2. "We value our relationship with the Muslim American community."'If you were kicked out of her campaign, would you vote for her?'Thus far, that apology has apparently done little to quell the anger in the Muslim community, which is still frustrated with the response from the Biden-Harris administration to the war in Gaza. Some feel affronted that no one spoke on behalf of Palestinians on the main stage at the Democratic convention in August."We have seen this repeated pattern of disregard and disrespect towards Muslim and Arab Americans unfold before," said Rex Nazarko, of the American Muslim Engagement and Empowerment Network, according to FOX 2.Basim Elkarra, the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in another state, called for an investigation into the incident in Royal Oak.In addition to his work in health care management, Dr. Ghanim also recently attempted to oust Congresswoman Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) in the 2024 Democratic primary. Stevens won overwhelmingly with 74% of the vote.Ghanim, described by the Detroit News as a Democratic "activist," now says he will likely not vote for Harris in the 2024 presidential election. "If you were kicked out of her campaign, would you vote for her?" he asked FOX 2 rhetorically."I guess that’s how the Democratic Party deals with Muslims. They’re not important to them. ... Maybe the Democratic Party doesn't want people like me and my kind in the party," he added to the Detroit News.Amer Ghalib, a fellow Muslim and the Democrat mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan, has already endorsed former President Donald Trump, calling him "the right choice for this critical time."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!